DID YOU KNOW ?

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• The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
• Half the world's population earns about 5% of the world's wealth.
• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".
• The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts.
• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
• The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
• Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.
• The oldest word in the English language is "town"
• The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
• The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.
• The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

CHANDA KOCHHAR TO LEAD ICICI

          One of the most powerful business women of India Chanda Kochhar has been declared as new CEO of ICICI bank. Kochhar who is ICICI's joint MD and group CFO will be the successor of K V Kamath to the post of MD and CEO. She was the instrumental in setting up and scaling up the retail business of the bank. In April 2001, she took over as the Executive Director, heading the retail business in the ICICI Bank. In April 2006, she was appointed as Deputy Managing Director.

        Chanda Kochhar joined ICICI as management trainee in 1981.When ICICI decided in 1993 to enter commercial banking, she was deputed to ICICI Bank as part of the core team to set up the operations. She has often featured in the Fortune magazine's annual lists of most powerful business women across the world. Kamath who will retire on April, 2009 will take over as non executive chairman.

IS NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY HARM OR HELP ?

Obviously tough to conclude or can have a conditional conclusion but not to conclude is a best conclusion.

        These are how the answers would be if someone is asked such question. We all are equally confused for the same. With rising fuel costs, concerns about global warming and the growing energy demand from the developing world all these are the reasonable reasons why one should approach the nuclear technology. For all the developed countries adequate energy is the basic necessity to live their life while for the developing countries energy is necessary to sustain their growth. Nuclear energy is the only option which can fulfill are immense energy requirement.

        Well looking the best option it's not even that much better. On the name of energy nuclear technology is much more oriented as a weapon rather then energy generator more over most of the countries have either developed or imported nuclear technology for their security purpose which is making the entire world an unsecured place.

PAKISTAN DEMANDS EVIDENCES ON MUMBAI

        Pakistan on Wednesday sought on India to provide evidences on Mumbai terror attacks. Pakistani officers said that they need concrete evidences to prosecute the suspects but they have not seen a sign of India providing its findings. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his government hasn't seen any information on the attack except for what has been reported by news media. That isn't sufficient for Pakistan to prosecute suspects, he said."India needs to provide concrete evidence for these investigations to move forward," Qureshi said. "We do not share evidence through the media. There are diplomatic channels for that."

      Pakistan hasn't done anything except arresting few suspects and shuttered a charity that the U.N. recently branded as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba.Government leaders have been reluctant to acknowledge any of the attackers were Pakistani, even though a major Pakistani newspaper carried an interview with a man in a Pakistani village who confirmed the surviving attacker was his son. Pak president Zaradari said,"investigations are ongoing and I would not jump to any conclusion'.

UK TROOPS TO VACANT IRAQ BY JULY

      British prime minister Gordon Brown said his army has completed their tasks and will leave Iraq by July. Brown with his Iraqi counter part Nouri Maliki said on tuesday "I am proud of my army and salute their efforts for the establishment of Democracy inIraq". The announcement comes after at least 18 people were killed in a twin blast in Bagdad.

    Mr. Brown said "we shall leave Iraq a better place". In their joint statement the leaders said the role played by the UK combat forces was "drawing to a close". They said the partnership between to countries will continue to take new dimensions and will strengthened through cooperation in all areas. 

    The withdrawal of UK troops is expected to start in the spring.

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS ?

BUSH ENCOUNTERED TO AN UNUSUAL IN IRAQ

          American president had an unusual encounter yesterday during his media conferernce in Iraq. Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zeidi threw two shoes at Bush and shouted "it is the farewell kiss, you dog". Very sharp Bush ducked both throws.

          Responding to the incident Bush said "it is a sign of a free society". Bush said he has seen a lot of such incidents during his eight years presidency but this was the weirdest. On the other side thousand of Iraqis came on streets to demand the realese of the journalist who hailed the journalist as a hero and praised him.

INDIA BEAT ENGLAND BY 6 WICKETS

         India easily won the first test against England by 6 wickets and took a 1-0 lead in the two match series.                                                                                        SACHIN - 103*   YUVRAJ - 85*  

         Match winning perfomance by both Sachin and Yuvi  helped India to achieve the target set by the opponents. 

Recruitment by Indian banks and PSUs

       For the foreign banks this might be the time for job cuts and cost cutting but Indian banks are doing exactly opposite to that by raising their men power.

         All the Indian banks seem to be unaffected by the downturn and  lower sales volume as they all are very busy in recruiting young professionals. Many Indian banks and PSUs are on a hiring spree now a days as they are planning to add thousands of young professionals in their men power.

       India's largest insurer LIC has decided to hire 45,000 out of that10,000 will be hired before March. Biggest lender of the country SBI will hire 25,000 professionals out of which 20,000 will be on a clerical posts and 5,000 will be for a supervisory posts. Some other nationalised banks like Bank Of Baroda , Indian Overseas Bank and Union Bank Of India are also planing to enhance their men power. 

    

HOW MUCH SLOW THE ECONOMIC SLOW DOWN IS ?

Now a days we all are well aware of the current economic slow down , what the slow down is ? why it is and how much slow it is ? Let's try to understand it.

         In a very simple term economic slow down means the pace with which economy was growing has reduced or might be the pace is negative. The main indicators  of such situation is bankruptcy of financial institutions like banks or money lending companies. Banks are the backbone for the economic growth of any country as they are the one who provides liquidity in the market. Due to instability of banks, liquidity has tightened and flow of money has stopped in other words money has been blocked which has created the credit crunch and this is the main reason why even big companies are finding it difficult to raise the funds.

        Virtual money which in fact never existed has suddenly disappeared which is one of the main reasons why the slow down is getting more and more severe with the time. Many big corporate honcho's property is almost reduced by half while the fact is the that they have not lost any physical assets. Well viewing from this angel it seems that nobody has lost anything the slow down is all about rapid change of one's mental status.

       Job cuts is one of the main indicator of slow down or recession. One of the reasons of these job cuts is an uncontrolled growth of all the sectors especially service sector. This resulted in an uncontrolled recruitement by big companies which is now unbearable for them.

       Let's get agreed at the point that except loss of control on the growth this recession or slow down is more of the moral loss rather than materialistic loss and will get slow very soon.

        

         

NEWS ON BOMBAY BLAST INVESTIGATIN

  INDIA DENIES REPORTS OF PUTTING IAF ON HIGH ALERT

                             India dismissed the reports of any extraordinary preperation on its air force defence part. Defence ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar denied the reports of any urgent movement by saying that the armed forces have to remain alert all 365 days as its their responsibility to protect the country from any external threats.

          Army, Navy and IAF officers also denied the reports by saying that its a general norm that more then 25 percent staff can not be on a leave , they said at least 75 percent of the staff has to be deployed at their posting places.

India tops BRIC nations in real estate transparency

India tops BRIC nations in real estate transparency

There has been a steady rise in transparency levels in the Indian real estate sector. The improvement has been led by a range of factors including introduction of REITs (real estate investment trusts) and REMFs (real estate mutual funds), greater availability of market information, increased foreign investment, improved accounting standards and financial disclosure, the possible introduction of a real estate regulator and advances in the legal and regulatory environment, said global real estate consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle in its latest Real Estate Transparency Index report.

India ranks highest among BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations in the 'Listed Vehicles' parameter due to large numbers of listed real estate players that adhere to stringent guidelines laid down by Sebi. As per the firm's findings, differences in transparency levels between major metros and secondary and tertiary cities in India are remarkably narrow, particularly when measured against differences within China. The main differences among tier I, II and III cities are in the availability of market information and transparency of the transaction process.
It is expected that over the next decade, transparency in India will increase via introduction of sector regulators, professionalism and international best practices in real estate, the findings predicted. However, the report also pointed out that the greatest challenges for the sector include limited provision of high quality market information and investment performance indicators.

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RESULTS OF STATE ELECTIONS

India's oldest party Congress has again proved its supremacy in Delhi and Rajasthan by retaining third term in Delhi and coming back in power in Rajasthan. While on the other side BJP has retained its power in MP and Jharkhand.

In Delhi, this was an opportunity for lost BJP and V.K. Malhotra to come back and challenge for Sheela Dixit to become a first lady occupying the CM seat for the third consecutive term. Here congress has one more time win the majority on a development agenda.

Rajasthan, where Vashundhara Raje was dreaming for second term again Congress has taken back the power after sitting in the opposition for five years. Even after reasonably good development of Rajasthan during her tenor the main reason for Raje's defeat is her inaccessibility of a common man and the Gurjars who where against her as she could not promise them what they wanted.

In Madhyapradesh where the so called anti-incummbency factor was an only hope for Congress to win the election did not work and Shivarajsinh Chauhan who sticked to his development agenda could convince a common man to give him a second chance. Chauhan who was considered as a weak leader has strengthened his party as well as his image and proved that an election can also be win without playing the cards of community or castism.

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PRESSURE RISES ON PAKISTAN

As India has shown enough evidences of Pak involvement in 26/11 attacks pressure on Pak is constantly rising. US foreign state secretary Condoleezza Rice who was in Pakistan yesterday clearly said "Pakistan must act urgently or US will act". She said Pakistan must handover the custody of the most wanted whch India has demanded.

Moreover John Maccain said "India can take military action if they need". He said this would be just similar to the action that US took on Afghanistan after the attacks of 9/11. Maccain during his media conference said India has all the rights to take action on the territories of Pakistan where terrorists are still running terror camps.

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DSC Notification 2008

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The Andhra Pradesh United Teachers urged the government HYDERABAD for issuing notification DSC 2008 for the selection of candidates for display as a teacher.

B Venkateswara Rao, UTF-President and N Narayana, the secretary general said that the government should not be a problem in issuing notification of 50,063 posts since the High Court of consent.If the government further delays, there can have complications in granting the notification. They wanted the issue of teacher promotions and transfers also be examined immediately.

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ASHOK CHAVAN , THE NEXT FACE OF MAHARASHTRA !

Having no more often in her kitty Sonia Gandhi finally may decide to replace Deshmukh by Ashok Chavan. Chavan is currently serving as industry minister seem to be strong contestant in the race of the succeeser of Deshmukh.

As the formal announcement is left party high command is still silent when asked , who will be the next Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Ashok Chavan is a sun of veteran Congressman Mr S. B. Chavan. When asked Chavan kept the card closed saying he will serve wherever he is asked to serve by party high command.

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Today on 14th August Cabinet approves sixth Pay Commission report. From September 2008, government employee will get hiked salary.

- Arrears will be effective from 01.01.2006, but central government employee will get only 40% of arreres on 2009 and rest 60% of arrears on 2010. arrears will be paid in cash.

- The higher salaries for 5 million government employees will cost the Centre Rs178 bn on an annual basis. The wage hike will exceed pay commission estimates by Rs110 bn, the Government said.

-The Cabinet broadly accepted the recommendations of the Sixth Central Pay Commission with some modification. The new system of four Pay Bands with 20 Grade Pays recommended by the commission has been accepted with minor changes.

-In the defense sector, it approved at least three assured promotions for all defence forces personnel and civilian employees under the modified Assured Career Progression scheme.

-The government for the first time approved Military Service Pay for armed forces personnel, under which officers would get Rs 6,000 over and above their pay per month.

-Annual pay increase will fixed 3%.

The Union Cabinet, ahead of the 61st Independence Day, has gifted the armed forces and other central government employees an average increase of 21 percent in salaries and at least three assured promotion by accepting the Sixth Pay Commission report.

The UPA Government approved at least three assured promotions for all soldiers and civilian employees under the modified Assured Career Progression scheme.

The civilian government employees would get this assured promotions after 10, 20 and 30 years of service, where as defence forces personnel would be promoted under ACP after 8, 16 and 24 years.

Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee and Navy Chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, welcomed the government’s decision to consider the demands of the armed forces while granting the Sixth Pay Commission.

He said that even as more details are awaited, prima-facie, all the concerns of the defence forces appear to have been suitably addressed.

“Increase in Military Service Pay of PBORs and compensation for middle-rung officers’ are particularly heartening. The decision to credit arrears from January 01, 2006 is most welcome,” Admiral Mehta added.

The grade pay of the middle level officers from captain to Brigadier has been enhanced. Officers like Colonels and Brigadiers have been put in Pay Band-4 and the pay band has been modified to Rs.37400-67000 instead of Rs.39200-67000.

Grade pay of Major General has been increased to Rs.11000 and that of Lieutenant General to Rs.13000.

The Military Service Pay of PBORs has been increased from Rs.1000 to Rs.2000 per month. Weightage ratio of five years for gratuity for PBORs will continue.

There is also good news for war-disabled personnel as the disability pension has been doubled from Rs.1550 to Rs.3100 and war disability pension to be granted at 60 percent.

The rate of Special Forces allowance for the Army and the Air Force will be equated with Navy’s Marine Commando allowance.

The Government announced an average increase of 21 per cent in salaries of 55 lakh Central Government employees with effect from January 1, 2006.

The wage hike would increase the financial implication for the Centre by Rs.17,798 crore annually and the arrears with effect from January 2006 would cost Rs.29,373 crore.

The financial implications in 2008-09 on account of the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations will be around Rs.15,700 crore on the Central Budget and Rs.6,400 crore on the Railway Budget. (ANI)

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Olympic Green Tennis Center

Green Tennis Center in china olympic 2008

The Olympic Green Tennis Center was delivered on Oct 1st. 2008. It will host the tennis cometition for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China and is hosting the Good Luck Beijing 2007 ITF Pro Circuit starting October 6th through October 20th.

Like many of the structures and venues The Olympic Green Tennis Center is very unique. Particularly the main court along with the number one and number two courts, which resemble flowers when viewed from a distance.

The center has ten courts total. The main court has a seating capacity of 10 thousand and will host the finals. Courts number one and two can hold 4,000 and 2,000 people, respectively.

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Olympic Venues: Badminton and Rhythmic Gymnastics

On Sunday September 30th 2007 the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium was officially opened. This venue will host the Badminton and Rhythmic Gymnastics events for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.


After the 2008 Olympics the gym will be used by the University for students and staff as well as for the national badminton team.


In the mean time the site will host two events this year. On October 10th through the 14th it will host the Good Luck Beijing Invitational Tournament and on December 5th through the 7th it will host the Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament.


The gym will hold a total of seven thousand five hundred people and is 24, 383 square meters in size.

DUBAI DRAGON MART

Dubai dragon mart is the largest trading hub in the world for products from China.

They have opened their door on 7th December 2004, still outside the Chinese main land,it has already attracted huge numbers of visitors.

Dragon Mart has been developed by Nakheel at its International City in the Al Warsan area.

1.2 kilometer long Dragon shaped structure has attracted residents from Dubai and neighboring Emirates who come here to enjoy a unique shopping experience.

While browsing a vast and varied selection of Chinese products.

IIFA Awards 2008

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Aishwarya rai was hand in hand with her husband Abhishek Bachhan. There are so many glamrous actresses in this IIFA award function. Dipika padukone and Ranbir Kapoor looks so great. Karina got a best actress awards, there are lots of kareena kapoor's stunning pictures here. Ayesh Takia with her smiling face as usual. Akshay kumar was with her wife twinkle after so much time.